The littlest Chromebook: GPD Pocket gets an unofficial ChromiumOS port
The GPD Pocket is a tiny laptop with a 7 inch display, a compact keyboard, and a case small enough to fold up and slide into a (fairly large) pocket. Over the past few years GPD and a series of rival...
View ArticleGoogle scraps plans for future Pixel tablets
If you’re in the market for a Google-branded Chrome OS device, right now you have two choices: the Google Pixelbook laptop or the Google Pixel Slate tablet. But according to a report from...
View ArticleGoogle brings Linux app support to some older Chromebooks (including...
Chrome OS started out as a browser-based operating system that could run web apps only. Eventually Google added support for Android apps, and then for Linux apps, making Chromebooks more useful as...
View ArticleDell Latitude 5000 Chromebooks are more customizable, powerful than most
Chromebooks are basically just laptops that run Google’s Chrome operating system rather than Windows, macOS, or another operating system. But historically Chromebooks have also been relatively cheap...
View ArticleHP Chromebook x360 12b and 14b coming soon for $359
As expected, HP is adding a new 12 inch Chromebook to its line of Chrome OS products. The new HP Chromebook x360 12b is a fanless convertible laptop with a 12 inch, 1366 x 912 pixel IPS display with a...
View ArticleGoogle gives some Chromebooks another 3 years of support
Some of the key selling points for Chromebooks is that they’re easy to use, secure, and always getting better thanks to software updates delivered regularly. But the truth is that Google only...
View ArticleSamsung launches Chromebook 4 series laptops for $230 and up
Samsung’s latest Chromebooks support up to 6GB of RAM, up to 64GB of storage, and feature support for the Google Play Store and Google Assistant. But these are still very much entry-level devices:...
View ArticleHP’s latest Chromebooks (and a Chromebox) are aimed at the enterprise market
This summer Dell and Google launched the first Chromebooks to feature Chrome OS Enterprise services. Since then Google has added a number of other models to its Chromebook for enterprise website,...
View ArticleSay hello to the Google Pixelbook Go (leaked hardware hands-on video posted...
Google’s next Chromebook is expected to have a brand new design, a 13.3 inch, 16:9 touchscreen display (FHD or 4K), and support for up to an Intel Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage....
View ArticleGoogle extends the software lifespan of more Chromebooks
Chromebooks are simple, relatively secure computers that download operating system and security updates automatically… for a set period of time. When Google first launched Chrome OS, the company...
View ArticleChrome OS gains virtual desktops, click-to-call on an Android phone, and more
Google is rolling out Chrome OS 78 to Chromebooks and Chromeboxes and, among other things, it’s the first version of the operating system to support virtual desktops. This feature, which was spotted in...
View ArticleLenovo may have a Chrome OS tablet on the way
Chrome OS tablets have been a thing for the past year and a half or so, but there still aren’t all that many on the market. Google makes one. Acer and Asus have models. And a few enterprise and...
View ArticleWindows 7 support is ending — what do you do now?
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Windows 7 support, which means that the decade-old operating system will get its final security update today. You can continue using Windows 7 indefinitely — aside from...
View ArticleGoogle is bringing gesture navigation to Chrome OS
Google has been phasing out support for navigation buttons in recent versions of Android, and instead prioritizing gesture-based navigation. Now it looks like gestures are coming to Chrome OS. The...
View ArticleChromebooks as a gaming platform? Steam support in the works, Stadia support...
Chromebooks may often be dismissed as cheap laptops that run a browser-based operating system. But thanks to support for Android and Linux apps, that’s not exactly true… and even if it were, there’s a...
View ArticleAll new Chromebooks will get at least 8 years of automatic updates
One of the nice things about buying a Google Chromebook is that the operating system receives automatic security and feature updates delivered straight from Google — which means that it’ll stay up to...
View ArticleChromebooks with discrete graphics could be on the way
While many Chromebooks are still basically small, cheap laptops with a browser-based operating system, we’ve seen a growing number of mid-range and premium models in recent years with the kind of...
View ArticleChrome OS 82 will bring major Linux terminal improvements
Google has been allowing Chrome OS users to run Linux apps for a few years. But the optional “Crostini” feature which makes this possible sort of feels tacked onto Chrome OS as an afterthought (which…...
View ArticleGoogle pauses Chrome and Chrome OS release schedule
Google is putting its usual Chrome release schedule on hold as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Typically the company releases new builds of Chrome OS and the Chrome web browser every six weeks....
View ArticleLilbits 386: Cheating at benchmarks
Benchmark utilities are designed to let you run the same exact test on multiple phones, PCs, or other devices so you can get an apples-to-apples comparison and see how they stack up against one another...
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